Talk about Capitals hockey & more! > General Discusion Anything But Hockey
Guns and Blowin Shit Up!
alta:
I wouldn't say that powder is fugly, at least it's all uniform, based on the picture. I've not seen that shape before either, but it obviously works. Does it burn clean or dirty? Honestly, that question alone has been my driving choice in powders. If it burns dirty I won't touch it. A clean burning powder means less time cleaning things. During the shortages under obama, I was offered Blazzer ammo several times. I politely turned it down.
Did you ever figure out that .223/5.56 load?
richkrt99:
Well you are right there, it is very uniform in size and shape, thickness, etc. IT's just BIG. I was loading at 23.1gr, but I'd bet I could not get 25gr in a .223 shell if I had to. Literally when I started I thought my drop was off or something. I HAD it set at 25gr for the last (CFE) and just dialed it back until I got it at 23.0. Then I thought something was off because the cases looked so full. I checked and checked and finally went and loaded 5 and then fired them.Seemed to be clean enough. I mean I only fired 45 rounds or so, but I did not notice any stink or even a lot of smoke. I have not checked the gun really. I'd say at 1st glance not bad. I'll clean the gun tonight -it was clean before those 45 rounds so we shall see.
Never solved the "other" powder issue, but then I never really went back to it yet. I ran into couple pounds of CFE223 at Cabelas recently (which worked well for me) and I had a pound of 4064 which also was fine so I haven't gone back to the troubled one. Still scratching my head - unless something was just off, I checked my notes and I started at the bottom and kept working up until I was getting flattened primers and some stuck cases and never got it to cycle reliably at any of the loads I tried from bottom up.
I actually bought the fugly "new" powder (Ft Smith FSP-749) and the troubled one (Ft Smith FSP-680) at the same time. I intended the fugly one for .308 but found several .223 loads for it and it works fine so far.
I got a new Lyman book recently and it shows 223 load for the trouble "4198" also. Gonna go back to it...some day, when I have more time. can't seem to find more than couple hours to get in there and mess around.
alta:
Id bet your "new" Russian powder was meant for bigger cases, like 7.62x54. Prolly would work fine in a .308. But, if it works for you it's good.
Fun fact of the day. The 7.62 X 54R(stands for rimmed, not russian) is the longest serving military cartridge ever. First fielded in the 1890s. Still in heavy front line use today.
richkrt99:
I thought the 54R was for Russian - even saw it posted somewhere recently as that (Hornady somewhere)
These PSA guys don't waste any time....I had not heard about Poopy Joe shitting himself when meeting the pope couple days ago, but PSA is already putting it on lowers - check out the safety selector marks :lol:
richkrt99:
And I kept seeing "Let's Go Brandon" everywhere and had to look that up.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version